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digitizer

digitizer

6.0
A person who makes digital files by scanning documents, photos, or audio
  • noun
  • /ˈdɪdʒɪˌtaɪzər/
  • US
translation icon : digitalizador
  • Our team of digitizers scanned and tagged thousands of photographs for the museum's online collection.

Examples

  • The library hired a digitizer to convert its archives into searchable digital copies.

  • After the flood, a volunteer digitizer rescued fragile manuscripts by creating high-resolution images.

  • The digitizer scanned the old photographs carefully.

  • Sarah is a talented digitizer at the museum.

  • The library hired a digitizer to convert its archives into searchable digital copies.

  • After the flood, a volunteer digitizer rescued fragile manuscripts by creating high-resolution images.

  • Our team of digitizers scanned and tagged thousands of photographs for the museum's online collection.

Synonyms

conversionist
vsdigitizer
  • Specialized
7.7

A person who changes documents or files from one format to another

specializes in converting physical materials into digital files and preparing them for storage

Surface Forms

digitizer singular
digitizers plural

Morphology

digitizer = digitize (transparent) = digit + ize + er

Built from 'digit' + -ize (to make digital) + -er (agent), a straightforward agentive nominalization.

Etymology

Digitizer also comes from the root digit, meaning 'finger' or 'number', and it can mean a person who makes things digital. So a digitizer is someone who scans photos, books, or sounds and turns them into 'digits', the numbers a computer can store and use.